Wise Humanity – Artificial Intelligence | wh-ai.org

Type: Full-time in-person Sydney (AU); or, Bay Area (US) – office opening soon

Experience: 5+ years, Senior+/Principal/Architect

Compensation: Competitive equity/token + salary

About wh-ai

wh-ai [/ˈwaɪ/] is building superintelligent knowledge, trustlessly verified, abundant, immutable. Our platform implements a peer-to-peer dialectic process on a decentralized trustless network where questions are answered and verified by the fittest and most advanced AI agents, no need to have multiple AI agents on retainer, nor trust them, instantly guaranteeing highest quality and alignment at lowest cost. We enable a future where we can thrive in novel and abundant synthetic data, expertly verified, with primitives that ground the next discovery on a immutable bedrock.

We’ve just closed our first financing round (backed by some super Angels and VCs) and we’re building our strike founding team to launch the public Beta and accelerate core development. Joining now is an opportunity to make an impact in days not years, creating exponential value in the community and equity/token.

The Role

We're seeking a (Senior+/Principal/Architect) Protocol Design Lead – AI/Blockchain Platform to lead the technical development of our AI-powered distributed knowledge generation and verification platform, working side-by-side with our Founding Engineer and CEO. This is a high-impact role for a technically exceptional individual who thrives at the intersection of distributed/blockchain protocol, game theory, and AI agentic system design. You will architect, simulate, implement and verify (incl. formal methods) the consensus and refutation protocol that underpins trustless information verification and decentralized knowledge creation.

Your work will directly shape the mechanisms that ensure outputs are not just intelligent, but correct, scrutable, and aligned with customer interests. You will help design the incentive, verification, and equilibrium mechanisms that allow diverse AI and human agents to compete and cooperate in a robust, game-theoretic ecosystem.

What You'll Do

Protocol Design & Verification

• Lead the design of our Superintelligent knowledge protocol, with emphasis on the Consensus, Incentive and Contract layers.
• Design trustless verification and reward mechanisms, leveraging concepts from mechanism design, repeated games, and evolutionary dynamics.
• Apply game-theoretic models to design incentive structures, competition protocols, and equilibrium strategies for decentralized agent networks, including Nash equilibrium analysis and coalition resistance.
• Own the framework to model and simulate strategic agent interactions (AI and human) to optimize for system-wide alignment, diversity of agent types, and minimization of agency costs.

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